DAMON DASH EXPECTING A THIRD BABY

So Rachel Roy and Dame are expecting. I guess congratulations is in order???? "It's number two," Roy, 33, told Style.com this week.

"And I am thrilled because number one, Ava, is the best thing in my life, and I have always wanted to have another little Ava – or Ava as a boy! So, high fives all around!"

Ava was born in 1999, a year after Roy and Dash became a couple. Just at year later Dash took up w/ Aaliyah and ran back to Rachel when she tragically passed in a plane crash.

Dash and Rachel then married on the DL 2005 after Dash adamantly denied the union.