A Manhattan judge approved a nearly $2 million Sony record deal for a trio of teenage Brooklyn metalheads Tuesday, with one warning: Don’t blow the money on Porsches.
“I’m happy for the boys, finally their dream has come true,” said Tabatha Dawkins, mom of 12-year-old Unlocking the Truth drummer Jarad Dawkins, of Crown Heights.
“I’m excited but I don’t show it,” a too-cool-for-enthusiasm Jarad added outside court Tuesday.
The band also includes guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse, 13, of Flatbush and bass player Alec Atkins, 13, of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Atkins revealed that the trio’s first single, titled ”Monster,” to be released next month, is about — what else? — a girl.
Malcolm’s gal pal inspired the song, but when asked to divulge her name, he said, “Oh no.”
But the soon-t0-be eighth-grader’s dad, Tracey Brickhouse, revealed telling lyrics that go, “I’m a monster, that’s what you told me baby.”
“Buy the record!” Alec teased.
Judge Carol Edmead signed off on the deal after a 30-minute hearing that was closed to the public because the boys are minors.
“The judge also asked if they had ’Coogan accounts,’” said manager Alan Sacks, referring to trusts named after child actor Jackie Coogan, whose parents blew his earnings years before he went on to play Uncle Fester on the 1960s TV show “The Addams Family.”
“They have accounts that nobody can touch,” Sacks said.
Malcolm’s mother, Annette Jackson, affectionately known as the band’s “momager,” had the idea of setting the trio up in Times Square last summer to perform for spare change.
“I thought, it’s the middle of Times Square, somebody has got to find you,” Jackson recalled, after brushing her son’s Afro with a hair pick.
And she was right. A Sony exec came across a YouTube video of the boys’ midtown performance that has over 1.5 million hits.
The yet-to-be-released single has already sold out, Sacks said.
“That’s the fan base these kids have,” he added.
Still, to earn the full $1.8 million, the first album has to sell over 250,000 copies at a time when megastars like Beyoncé are lucky to reach 600,000.
The five-album contract includes 16 to 17 percent royalties, which is slightly above the industry average, experts said.
Their advance for the first album is only $60,000.
But entertainment attorney Richard Wolfe, who has repped Mariah Carey and Marilyn Manson, says the fee is not too shabby, given the band’s genre.
“I think it’s a decent deal considering what’s out there in the music industry today,” Wolfe said.
“Heavy metal doesn’t sell the units that a pop act does,” he added.
The band will play Heavy Montreal on Aug. 9.