Artists unchecked in Music sync still remain on iPhone?

I just recently switched from Sync "Entire Music Library" to "Selected playlists, artists, and genres". There's just some music I don't need on my iPhone that I want to remain in iTunes at home.
Unchecking the artists/genres I don't want moved to the iPhone doesn't seem to be having any effect on my iPhone though. It's not pulling these songs off as desired--they are still persisting.
Does your iPhone have to be totally full before it will pull off songs/artists/playlists you don't want synced? Am not really getting this.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

Have you synced/hit apply once you made the changes in itunes?
Are all of the artist songs and genres still on the iphone or just some?
If you unchecked the artist, but the artists song is in a playlist (that you have selected to sync) then that song will still be on the iphone as you have selected it via the playlist.

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